Elbit’s 120 mm mortar uses GPS and lasers to make the infantry’s favorite heavy weapon precision-guided – and the US is looking to upgrade its own 120s on Strykers and AMPVs.
By Arie EgoziGen. Mark Milley’s trip to Israel – his second in eight months – comes as the US and Israel heighten collaboration against Iran and its proxies.
By Arie EgoziThe latest Trump Administration sale to Saudi Arabia is tied up with the recent firing of the State Department’s Inspector General, congressional unease, and a Saudi regime with few friends outside the White House.
By Paul McLearyThe 2021 budget request also makes major reductions in the tracked M2 Bradley and the wheeled Joint Light Tactical Vehicle, as well as counter-IED programs.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.“The US is going out of this region, and that is creating a new, very critical situation,” an Israeli source said.
By Arie EgoziNew restrictions on US aid to Israel is driving companies to seek American partners.
By Arie EgoziIt’s a global coming-out party for the precision munition, already used by the Israeli Air Force in Syria.
By Arie EgoziThe massive Army Materiel Command needs to get a lot lighter on its feet for future conflicts, its four-star chief says.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.As the Pentagon starts pumping cash into shipyards and small weapons manufacturers, is it enough to save some ailing production lines?
By Paul McLearyWarships sink. Bases burn. F-35s die on the runway. Can $24 billion a year — 3.3 % of the Pentagon budget — fix the problem?
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.WASHINGTON: Over the past month, US Air Forces in Europe took delivery of their largest shipment of ordnance in two decades. It’s another sign of the rearming of the continent as the United States pushes troops and equipment back into the region after years of drawing down, even as its NATO allies — and increasingly,…
By Paul McLearyThree weeks ago, US Army experts traveled to the Negev Desert to watch a test of the latest, longest-range version of Rafael’s Spike missile. Fired from an Israeli AH-64 Apache, the same gunship used by US attack helicopter squadrons, the Spike NLOS struck a target 20 miles away — four times the range of the…
By Arie Egozi
“I think long-range strike is about trying to keep stability in a crisis situation. And if you’re going to use it as a deterrence,” former Air Marshal Geoff Brown says. “It’s got to be responsive, it’s got to be potent, but you’ve also got to be able to signal that you can use it.”
By Robbin Laird and Ed Timperlake